Re: Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Uwe Doering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Edd wrote:
> > I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have
> > never seen before appeared:
> > hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages:
> >
> >>tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
> > A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any
> > ideas
> > what this might be?
> 
> That should probably read "database", and the message just got clipped
> for some reason.  Some program apparently tried to access
> '/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message, which
> the security run scripts subsequently reported to you.

No, it's more benign than that.
What almost certainly happened is that the first part of a line from
the *top* of the dmesg buffer got clipped off, and so this is only the
*end* of an *old* log message.
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Re: Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread white vamp
I had the same thing show up today .. and what it wound up being was postfix
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>Edd wrote:
>>I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I
>>have
>>never seen before appeared:
>>
>>hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages:
>>
>>>tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
>>
>>A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any
>>ideas
>>what this might be?
>
>That should probably read "database", and the message just got
>clipped for some reason.  Some program apparently tried to access
>'/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message,
>which the security run scripts subsequently reported to you.
>
>You may want to investigate which of your software expects
>'aliases.db' directly under '/etc'.  Normally, this file lives under
>'/etc/mail' in FreeBSD, or at least in 4.x, and all software ported
>to FreeBSD properly should know about that.  Did you install some
>programs directly from their original source, that is, not from the
>FreeBSD ports/packages collection?
>
>Uwe
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Re: Security run question

2004-05-25 Thread Uwe Doering
Edd wrote:
I recieved my security run today (as usual) and an error which I have
never seen before appeared:
hitbox.monsternet.lan kernel log messages:
tabase /etc/aliases.db: No such file or directory
A quick locate shows that there is no such command as tabase! Any ideas
what this might be?
That should probably read "database", and the message just got clipped 
for some reason.  Some program apparently tried to access 
'/etc/aliases.db', failed to do so and logged an error message, which 
the security run scripts subsequently reported to you.

You may want to investigate which of your software expects 'aliases.db' 
directly under '/etc'.  Normally, this file lives under '/etc/mail' in 
FreeBSD, or at least in 4.x, and all software ported to FreeBSD properly 
should know about that.  Did you install some programs directly from 
their original source, that is, not from the FreeBSD ports/packages 
collection?

   Uwe
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